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Contents:

• IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN
• THE GAY UPLE FIGHTG FOR THE RIGHT TO MARRY CHA
• A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY RIGHTS CHA
• FOR GAY CHE, GETTG MARRIED MEANS GETTG CREATIVE
• COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023
• 14 MILLN WOMEN CHA ARE MARRIED TO GAY MEN, EXPERT SAYS

IN CHA, GAY MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN

Expectatns are raised that the natn, which is led by the Communist Party, might eventually jo the growg number of untri that have passed legislatn protectg the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. However, Cha's open door polici the early 1980s set motn social and cultural chang that would lead Beijg to crimalize homosexualy 1997 and remove om an official list of mental disorrs time, major ci would wns lively gay and lbian scen wh the proliferatn of clubs and bars.

"I know 's jt a proposal and 's most likely not gog to be realized the near future, but the fact this topic is now publicly and officially on the table giv the LGBT muny hope for the first time after years of hidg and stgglg, " she told NBC apparent change of stance is "a promisg and posive step, " said Hu Zhijun, director of PFLAG, another advocy group named after the large LGBTQ rights group the Uned shift even seemed to extend to the cema — the first gay kiss of the "Star Wars" film anchise recently ma to Cha's theaters. That followed a few months after scen of homosexualy the bpic "Bohemian Rhapsody" were leted by Che Cha's LGBTQ muny, the changg ernment stance reflects a changg climate of opn due to the "greater open-mdns" of the Che public, pecially the younger generatn, Hu Cha appears to be movg toward liberalizg s stance on LGBTQ issu reflects the "evable trend, " Peng said.

"The important thg is that 's no longer possible for society to stay where was 10 years ago, " Peng said, argug that the acceptabily of gay marriage to the younger generatn has "exceed" the imagatn of Che notg that Cha has s own dynamics and pace, Hu poted to Taiwan's legalizatn of same-sex marriage May, the first such legalizatn Asia, as proof that tradnal Che culture is open to same-sex Hu Xgdou, an pennt social affairs mentator based Beijg who is a former enomics profsor, Cha's shiftg stance reflects the untry's greater engagement wh the outsi world. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTA lawsu brought by a stunt is part of an effort to get schools, edors and publishers to regnize that beg gay is not a mental Ho for The New York TimEarly llege, Ou Jiayong had already learned two thgs. And two, n be hard to change them — pecially on topics as sensive Cha as 2016, durg her first year at South Cha Agricultural Universy her hometown, Guangzhou, she stumbled across a psychology textbook that scribed beg gay as a mental a lbian, Ms.

THE GAY UPLE FIGHTG FOR THE RIGHT TO MARRY CHA

Her se has renewed the nversatn about tolerance and human rights a untry where discrimatn based on sexual orientatn is rampant and where homosexualy has long been seen as patible wh the tradnal emphasis on a letter to the judge, Ms. “It brought back memori of beg lghed at by my classmat bee of my homosexualy, ” she wrote the letter, which her lawyer read aloud urt this summer, three years after the su was judge was unswayed. Three weeks after the verdict, a school Jiangsu said would amend a health tn manual after an ter er highlighted a phrase that said: “Homosexualy go agast the laws of nature.

A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY RIGHTS CHA

This year, as Cha prepared to adopt s first civil , activists led an unsuccsful ph for the legalizatn of same-sex marriage, floodg legislators wh more than 230, 000 onle suggtns and though Cha crimalized homosexualy 1997 and removed om an official list of psychiatric disorrs 2001, discrimatn persists employment, health re and other areas. In 2015, a stunt sued the Mistry of Edutn over textbooks that scribe homosexualy as an afflictn, argug that the ernment was rponsible for ensurg the books’ qualy and should disclose s approval procs; she lost two years later. In 2014, a Che urt orred a clic to pensate a man who unrwent electroshock therapy signed to “cure” homosexualy, sayg the clic had mted nsumer sug for discrimatn is harr bee Che law do not protect people based on their sexual inty.

Ou’s lawsu was uched as a vlatn of nsumer rights, wh her lawyers argug that there were dozens of typos and other errors the 2013 edn of “Mental Health Edutn for College Stunts, ” a wily ed most egreg error, they said, was this phrase: “Compared wh the sexual orientatn of most people, homosexualy n be seen as a mental disorr or a nfn of sexual sir.

” France-Prse — Getty ImagShe took the publisher to urt the next year, driven by her classmat’ rogatory ments as well as the suici of a gay stunt at a Guangzhou universy the hearg was fally schled for this summer, Ms.

FOR GAY CHE, GETTG MARRIED MEANS GETTG CREATIVE

Or married gay upl (as —a man and woman who are both gay) who have recently had a child but are still livg wh their rpective partners, and tryg to figure out what to tell their son as he gets olr.

Nohels, thoands of gay men and women are tyg the knot., the earlit and most active webse for gay men and women to fd stand- spo, currently has over 380, 000 ers and claims to have matched nearly 20, 000 upl sce started 2005. Sadly, the meantime, more and more gay men will ntue seekg lbian spo, and together they will have to navigate the parent-pleasg, logistil nightmare that is “operative marriage.

COUNTRI WHERE GAY MARRIAGE IS LEGAL 2023

This article argu the greatt challenge is not the nstutnal grounds, but rather social hurdl: tradnal Confucian culture, the ernment’s ignorance of the existence of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (“LGBT”) people Cha, and the general mass social views of homosexualy and same-sex marriage Cha. Durg the early days of the tablishment of the new Cha, along wh pre-maral sex, polygamy, prostutn, and celibacy, homosexual behavr was treated as “fdal thought” prohibed by the new ernment.

[12] In 2001, after five years of study by the Che Psychiatric Associatn, cludg followg the daily liv of 51 Che gays and lbians for one year, the Psychiatric Associatn removed homosexualy om s official list of mental illns. [14] On the ndn that the percentage of homosexualy all human rac stays the same, seems logil to suggt that Cha has the largt LGBT populatn, sce Cha has the largt populatn today’s world. [15] Among those dozens of lns of gay men and women Cha, eighty percent of them will get married bee of the tradnal Confucian valu of filial piety and the prsure to have children.

14 MILLN WOMEN CHA ARE MARRIED TO GAY MEN, EXPERT SAYS

Where arguments opposn to same-sex marriage are often ma on relig grounds (the notn of homosexualy beg a s or immoral), [20] there is no relig notn of homosexualy beg a s or immoral Cha, bee is a untry that is largely atheist. The long-held belief Cha that children mt marry and ntue the fay le by bearg offsprg probably nstut one of the biggt obstacl to acceptg homosexualy and regnizg same-sex marriage. ” While homosexualy was never mentned by Confuci, the re parts of Confucian moral teachg are benevolence, obedience to lers, and the importance of fay valu, upled wh filial duty and an extreme enuragement of heterosexual marriage, and rryg on the fay le by bearg offsprg.

Acrdgly, sce they are nsired to not be able to rry on fay l the ey of many Che parents, is hard for homosexual upl to get wi support om the society, pecially om their parents.